Playing Human

"Who are you and how do you know all this stuff," she looked at me as if I was from another planet or something.

That was after I told her about fermented vegetables, and how ferments may help her digestive and overall health.  We were standing in the parking lot of People's Food Co-op, and had seen each other several times before because we both had a "share of a cow" from the same dairy farmer, which means we both picked up raw milk on the same night, and we both usually shopped at the Co-op, either before or after.  Our conversations often centered around health and the healing properties of certain foods.

Cabbage/Carrot Ferment

How did I know all this? about ferments? and healing?  That was easy to answer.  "It's all been a part of my healing journey for the last year or so,"  I explained, "learning about fermented foods and making them myself.  Most fermented vegetables available in grocery stores have been pasteurized, which kills the good bacteria in them, so if you want the real benefits of fermented vegetables, you must either make them yourself, or look for fermented products labeled 'unpasteurized' or 'raw.'  But it's very inexpensive and rather rewarding to make them yourself."

Fermenting was one of the ways our ancestors preserved foods, which also helped to keep them healthy.  And if they hadn't survived, where would we be?

It's an interesting fact that our body is basically a shell for trillions of bacteria.  We are the host for lots and lots of other life, kind of like how the Earth is host to us and lots of other life as well.  The bacteria in our bodies actually outnumber our own cells 10 to 1, which means there are more of "them" than there are "us."

Very simply put, as far as gut bacteria go, there are the "good-guys" and the "bad-guys."  When the "bad-guys" out number the "good-guys" in our gut, all sorts of imbalances can occur in our bodies.  Replenishing the "good-guys" on a regular basis supports good health, and has been an important part of restoring my health.

So that's how I know all this stuff about healing foods, from my own personal experience.

But, who am I, other than bacteria?

That's a good question, and my answer seems to be ever evolving...

When I was a teenager, I remember looking into the mirror and wondering, "If my parents had never gotten together, who or what would I be?"

For some reason, I just knew that I would still be, that I would still exist, though my form would most likely be different.  I realized that my current form was a result of my parent's genetics, yet I knew that there was something eternal and timeless about me, about everyone.  We all have this animating force, this divine spark that, upon the death of the physical body, leaves the body and goes elsewhere, but does not cease to exist.

Recently I've also experienced myself in other dimensions and as other beings...

In one brief yet exhilarating experience, as I was falling asleep one night, I jumped into another reality that was so real I only stayed there for a few moments because I was so shocked and surprised by it's reality.  I was in a male body, yet it felt as though I fully embodied my feminine side as well.  Wearing silver armor, like a knight, holding a silver and gold sword with rainbow colored sparkles dripping from the tip, I looked around and saw a female figure who was also doing something with rainbow colored sparkles.  And I knew that even though I was a separate being, I was also that female form and everything I saw.  That was when I jumped out of that reality and back into Jeanine.  And for about an hour afterward I was filled with astonishment from that experience.

Henry Kissinger

And talk about astonishment, in another experience I jumped into Henry Kissinger's body and literally became him.  In that brief experience, I knew his history, his life and his experiences because they were also my history, my life and my experiences.  I was him.  I totally understood him and why he thinks the way he does.  It's kind of like how a goldfish is a goldfish, and no matter how much others want the goldfish to be a lion, it's simply not a lion.  It's a goldfish.  I left that dimension knowing that Henry Kissinger is playing his role, being himself, perfectly! 

An eternal, multi-dimensional being, connected to everything that is because I AM a part of All That Is, playing my human role, perfectly.  And so are you!

Blessings!